Groovy Programming for Beginners Training Course

Introduction to Programming with Groovy

• What is Groovy?
• Brief history and evolution of Groovy
• Why choose Groovy?
• Overview of programming concepts
• Introduction to scripting vs compiled languages

Environment Setup

• Installing Groovy
• Setting up Groovy environment on different operating systems
• Introduction to GroovyShell and IDEs
• Exploring GroovyShell
• Introduction to Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) compatible with Groovy

Your First Groovy Script

• Hello world in Groovy
• Writing and running your first Groovy script
• Basic Groovy syntax
• Comments, variables, and printing outputs

Fundamental Programming Concepts in Groovy

• Data types and variables
• Primitive types, strings, and type inference
• Basic operators
• Arithmetic, relational, and logical operators
• String manipulation
• Common string operations and methods

Control Structures

• Conditional statements
• if, else, and switch statements
• Looping Constructs
• for, while, and do-while loops

Introduction to Collections

• Working with arrays
• Declaring, initializing, and accessing arrays
• Lists and maps
• Introduction to list and map usage and operations

Introduction to Functions and Closures

• Defining and calling functions
• Syntax, parameters, and return values
• Basic introduction to closures

Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming

• Classes and objects
• Creating classes, objects, and understanding properties
• Basic methods
• Method definitions and method calling

Basic Error Handling

• Introduction to exception handling
• Try, catch, and finally blocks
• Common exception types in Groovy

Summary and Next Steps